Collar-button



T. B. BOYD. Collar Button.

No. 232,108. Patented Sept. 14,1880.

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Unrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TRUSTIN B. BOYD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,108, dated September 14, 1880.

Application filed January 6, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TRUSTIN B. 130311), of

St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and use ful Improvement in Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view, in perspective, of a button having theimprovelneut; and Fig. 2, a side elevation, the tie or scarf being indicated by the broken lines.

The same letters denote the same parts.

This improvement relates especially to the means for holding the necktie, scarf, or other article of neckwear properly in place.

It consists in a pin which projects from the button and sticks into the tie or article, preventing the latter, after being adjusted upon the neck, from moving from its position.

The mode of carrying out the improvement is as follows: A represents a collarbutton hav- I ing aninner disk, a, and an outer disk,a, and a connecting-shank, a all of the ordinary shape, saving as modified by theimprovement in question, which consists in a point, B, that is attached to the outer disk, to, and projecting therefrom, and more particularly described as follows: beginning at or near the lower edge of the disk, it projects downward therefrom and slightly outward, as shown.

In use the collar-button is inserted in the usual manner. Then when the necktie is put in place the point B penetrates it, as indicated in Fig. 2. The effect is to keep the tie down in place, and also to prevent-its movinglaterally around the neck.

When the inner disk, or, is too large to pass through the button-holes in the collar and shirt, the disks to a are made detachable from each other. For this purpose the outer disk, to, is furnished with a shank, 0, which slips into the shank a and is fastened there by the springcatch a, as in the ordinary collar-button havin g detachable disks.

The improvement is applicable to buttons, studs, and similar articles.

I am aware that buttons, for the purpose of securing them in place, have been furnished with pointed shanks, which are passed through the cloth to which the buttons are attached, and then turned down thereupon.

I am also aware that neckties have been buttoned onto collarbuttons, and that in such cases the portion of the button appearing upon the outside of the tie has, for ornamental purposes, been elongated laterally.

I claim- A button having an inner and outer disk connected by a suitable shank or part, and having the pin B, secured to the inner surface of the outer disk, bent down over the periphery of said disk and projecting at an angle beyond it, substantially as shown and described.

T. B. BOYD.

Witnesses:

G. D. MOODY, SAML. S. BOYD. 

